Booing the Champions League Anthem

There’s probably a futility to it all, but can see why people want to voice their disapproval of UEFA and this is the most public way of doing it. Whether it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, and we end up getting treated even more shabbily by them, who knows? It would probably happen regardless tbh. I don’t really bother booing it myself any more, but defend the right of others to do so if they wish.
 
Having always been there I don’t actually know how it comes over on tv. The PA system is that loud I assume it mostly gets drowned out. Can’t be arsed booing anymore... maybe the ****s at UEFA have ground me down! I’ve had enough of it now anyway after last night and the previous game so I won’t be partaking next season
 
seantheduck said:
I always boo the Champions League tune but no longer......from next season I am coming out of the cup scheme for these games as I really don’t enjoy it. I hate the 2 hour car drives midweek for a fucking 45 min journey. I hate the fact you cannot get a beer in the ground with mates but UEFA have a beer sponsor. I hate having to stand up every 2 minutes to let fucking tourists find their seats and then stand up again as they are in wrong block. I hate the fucking selfie sticks, half and half scarfs and seating behind a tourist watching the match through his phone or tablet. I hate sitting next to a tourist wearing a mask over their face and who puts plastic covers over their seat as if to say we are all fucking unclean and disease ridden. (yes it did happen!). I hate the fact away fans, in groups sit next to us or above us winding us up when they score a goal and the stewards do fuck all about it. I hate the secondary conflict this causes between us City fans. But the thing I really hate the most is the fucking cheating corrupt bent officials on and off the pitch who are killing the game for the fans. These UEFA prick refs think we have come to watch them – fuck you - they should be fucking invisible like those other useless fucking pricks behind each goal. This is happening every season now, most games...decisions being made by UEFA appointed corrupt/incompetent officials that as a fan of 20 years+ watching live football I just cannot understand. It has now become norm and so predictable.....I love my football but being honest I have no real love for these games or UEFA European football in the current format with its management of the game e.g. punishment for clubs with racist fans. UEFA can fuck right off. Next season I will be watching games in the pub but I will still be booing that fucking anthem and all it stands for!
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Good post, and thanks for saving me 5 minutes typing out very similar, if not identical, comments.

I would however add, I hate the corrupt draws and their utter predictability (what possible reason could there be for having a PRACTICE DRAW ffs). And I hate the inevitability of getting stiffed on the night by corrupt officials - we all know it's going to happen yet still moan about it afterwards.

Well no longer for me. I'll still be moaning about it, but it won't be costing me £70 every time, and I won't have to explain to my 9 year old son why the ref keeps getting things wrong (how do you explain to a kid that it's deliberate without confusing them and ruining it all for them).
 
burning blue soul said:
It does achieve something though. It makes my dissatisfaction with the governing body of European football clear.
The way they treat city in this competition will not change, but at least by booing we are showing that we know what they are doing and why they are doing it.
If we ever win this cup...which is so unlikely as to be negligible, the very next chumps league game I will happily boo again.
If it was a marriage it would be annulled under unreasonable behaviour and irreconcilable differences.
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OK, and how's that working out for us?
 
seantheduck said:
I always boo the Champions League tune but no longer......from next season I am coming out of the cup scheme for these games as I really don’t enjoy it. I hate the 2 hour car drives midweek for a fucking 45 min journey. I hate the fact you cannot get a beer in the ground with mates but UEFA have a beer sponsor. I hate having to stand up every 2 minutes to let fucking tourists find their seats and then stand up again as they are in wrong block. I hate the fucking selfie sticks, half and half scarfs and seating behind a tourist watching the match through his phone or tablet. I hate sitting next to a tourist wearing a mask over their face and who puts plastic covers over their seat as if to say we are all fucking unclean and disease ridden. (yes it did happen!). I hate the fact away fans, in groups sit next to us or above us winding us up when they score a goal and the stewards do fuck all about it. I hate the secondary conflict this causes between us City fans. But the thing I really hate the most is the fucking cheating corrupt bent officials on and off the pitch who are killing the game for the fans. These UEFA prick refs think we have come to watch them – fuck you - they should be fucking invisible like those other useless fucking pricks behind each goal. This is happening every season now, most games...decisions being made by UEFA appointed corrupt/incompetent officials that as a fan of 20 years+ watching live football I just cannot understand. It has now become norm and so predictable.....I love my football but being honest I have no real love for these games or UEFA European football in the current format with its management of the game e.g. punishment for clubs with racist fans. UEFA can fuck right off. Next season I will be watching games in the pub but I will still be booing that fucking anthem and all it stands for!
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Spot on!
 
seantheduck said:
I always boo the Champions League tune but no longer......from next season I am coming out of the cup scheme for these games as I really don’t enjoy it. I hate the 2 hour car drives midweek for a fucking 45 min journey. I hate the fact you cannot get a beer in the ground with mates but UEFA have a beer sponsor. I hate having to stand up every 2 minutes to let fucking tourists find their seats and then stand up again as they are in wrong block. I hate the fucking selfie sticks, half and half scarfs and seating behind a tourist watching the match through his phone or tablet. I hate sitting next to a tourist wearing a mask over their face and who puts plastic covers over their seat as if to say we are all fucking unclean and disease ridden. (yes it did happen!). I hate the fact away fans, in groups sit next to us or above us winding us up when they score a goal and the stewards do fuck all about it. I hate the secondary conflict this causes between us City fans. But the thing I really hate the most is the fucking cheating corrupt bent officials on and off the pitch who are killing the game for the fans. These UEFA prick refs think we have come to watch them – fuck you - they should be fucking invisible like those other useless fucking pricks behind each goal. This is happening every season now, most games...decisions being made by UEFA appointed corrupt/incompetent officials that as a fan of 20 years+ watching live football I just cannot understand. It has now become norm and so predictable.....I love my football but being honest I have no real love for these games or UEFA European football in the current format with its management of the game e.g. punishment for clubs with racist fans. UEFA can fuck right off. Next season I will be watching games in the pub but I will still be booing that fucking anthem and all it stands for!
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Don't often comment on here but read this and it PERFECTLY sums it up for me. Great Post Blue. Realise the money and prestige of the competition are important to the owners, but the whole Champs League set up does very little for me.
 
There are actually people that boo the anthem with no idea how it started. It served a purpose for a while to show our disapproval to sanctions that had wrongly been placed against us. People constantly question if all the wrong decisions we get in the games are because UEFA do not want us in their competition. Well lets be honest that is probably the case. Would they really want a club whose fans (as they see it) disrespect the anthem in the show piece game I would think not. Time to get over it is done and gone because we have to all be intelligent enough to realise it will not achieve anything.
 
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